CRM 3312 Lecture 17: Sociological Positivism + Family and Youth Delinquency
3 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Criminal behaviour (techniques and rationalization) is learned within intimate groups: you learn it from your peers and family, face-to-face interactions, must learn the hows and whys (the techniques, principle #1. Differential associations vary on 4 dimensions: frequency: how often do you spend time with a deviant group, duration: length of time spent together, priority: refers to the age at which the interactions begin. Intensity: refers to the value and importance that are attributed to these groups by the individual. Valued or not, parents are valued but as you grow older they are less valued, so the emphasis is put on the peer group. I was forced to go into it, felt like it was not your fault. Nobody got hurt, they can afford it. They asked for it, they had it coming, saying that it is the victim"s fault. Cops are just as corrupt as some people.
